4. And were DC Circuit Court Judge Janice Rogers Brown's recent "open-mic libertarian musings" a job application, as Dahlia Lithwick sees it? Good article, but there's another interpretation. She's about to turn 63, older than Roberts and Alito...she may be realizing that she's well past the age window that recent appointments to the Supremes have fit, and so it might as well be bombs away now.

"America’s cowboy capitalism was long ago disarmed by a democratic process increasingly dominated by powerful groups with economic interests antithetical to competitors and consumers."

The rich and connected craft legislation to advantage themselves. Liberals disagree with this?

"And the courts, from which the victims of burdensome regulation sought protection, have been negotiating the terms of surrender since the 1930s."

Regulations are compulsory. Governments do literally point guns at people to make them obey. Do liberals like Lithwick disagree?

"First the Supreme Court allowed state and local jurisdictions to regulate property, pursuant to their police powers, in the public interest, and to “adopt whatever economic policy may reasonably be deemed to promote public welfare.” Nebbia v. New York, 291 U.S. 502, 516 (1934)."

Do liberals not agree that seizing someone's house to hand the property to rich developers in order to raise taxes is heavy-handed?

"Then the Court relegated economic liberty to a lower echelon of constitutional protection than personal or political liberty, according restrictions on property rights only minimal review. United States v. Carolene Products Co., 304 U.S. 144, 152–53 (1938)."

Liberals absolutely agree with the idea that economic freedoms are much less important than, say, abortion rights.

But I don't understand the following in light of his acceptance of the wounds:

"What always shook me about this case, was not the belief that Zimmerman ruthlessly slaughtered a 17-year old child, but the act of putting myself in that child's place, and seeing how I just as easily (could) have ended making a decision to defend myself."

How is it considered 'defending myself' to deck a man, mount him, and start slamming his head into concrete? If I feared some guy enough to attack him, I wouldn't hang around to Finish Him! Sensei Kreese-style.